Virtual Reality Toolbox™ 4.7

Product Description

• Introduction and Key Features
• Links from Simulink to a Virtual Reality World
• Tools for Viewing and Building Virtual Reality Worlds
• MATLAB Interface to the Virtual Reality World
• C Code Support

Tools for Viewing and Building Virtual Reality Worlds

You can create virtual worlds that are driven from the Simulink environment using standard Virtual Reality Modeling Language (VRML). The Virtual Reality Toolbox provides a complete working environment, including:

• A VRML authoring tool for creating virtual reality worlds
• A VRML viewer for displaying virtual reality worlds
• An optional VRML Web browser plug-in for viewing virtual worlds on Windows

VRML Editors

The V-Realm Builder in the Virtual Reality Toolbox lets you create views and images of physical objects using VRML. You can also use the Virtual Reality Toolbox with any interface that follows VRML 97 standards. These interfaces let you import 3-D objects from most CAD packages, providing an efficient process for creating detailed visual models.



The Virtual Reality Toolbox Sink block, showing the VRML tree for the associated virtual world. Click on image to see enlarged view.

VRML Viewers

The Virtual Reality Toolbox includes three VRML viewers: the Virtual Reality Toolbox viewer (the default), the blaxxun Contact plug-in for Web browsers, and the Orbisnap stand-alone viewer. The Virtual Reality Toolbox viewer runs on multiple platforms. The Blaxxun Contact VRML plug-in lets you view the animation of a virtual world in a Web browser on Windows. Orbisnap is a standalone VRML viewer that lets you view virtual worlds or prerecorded animation files.

Individual and Collaborative Work Environments

The Virtual Reality Toolbox enables you to view and interact with simulated virtual worlds on one computer that is running Simulink or on networked computers connected locally or via the Internet.

In an individual (non-networked) work environment, your modeled system and the virtual reality visualization run on the same local host. In a collaborative work environment, the Virtual Reality Toolbox connects your modeled system to a VRML-enabled Web browser using TCP/IP, enabling remote users to view the VRML model via the Internet.